“Epoch is an experimental film intended to take you on a voyage
through our solar system and beyond. It is a personal project
orchestrated to share our enjoyment and admiration for science
fiction films and literature.”

“In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with
MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark about the foundations of science, our
current understanding of the universe, and the risks of future
breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.”

“i say, while everyone is trying to jump to mars for no clear
reason, we gently embed a ship into a carbony asteroid and figure
out how to live off the carbon and then spend 5 generations hopping
from one to the next, progressively figuring out how to live further
and further from the sun, eventually leaving the oort cloud entirely
and settling up to live off the tidal forces a satellite feels when
orbiting a rogue gas giant…”

“[…] unmanned NASA and ESA programs have been putting landers on
Titan, shooting chunks of metal into an inbound comet, driving
rovers around Mars and continuing to gather a variety of priceless
observations from the many active unmanned orbital telescopes and
space probes sprinkled through the Solar System. At the same time,
the skeleton crew on the ISS has been fixing toilets, debugging
laptops, changing batteries, and speaking to the occasional
elementary school over ham radio.”